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by Steven Granger 36 year old Marc Lauenstein, did the unthinkable when he raced to a second successive record-breaking win at the Otter African Trail Retto Run over 42km of coastal paradise yesterday in ideal cool, dry conditions between Nature’s Valley and Storms River. And once again the amiable Swiss dentist walked away with a […]

by Kim Stephens The Otter Trail is one of South Africa’s most pristine and popular 5 day hiking trails, traversing the coast between Storms River and Natures Valley on the Garden Route. Once a year, Magnetic South puts on a bucket list race as South Africa’s elite trail runners welcome a few international counterparts to […]

Article by Stephen Granger Swiss superstar, Marc Lauenstein, returns to the scene of one of his greatest athletics’ triumphs when he takes on a strong field in this year’s Otter African Trail Run (Retto) between Nature’s Valley and Storm’s River next Saturday. Last year Lauenstein achieved “the impossible” by running the 42km trail – South […]

It is official – organiser of the OTTER AFRICAN TRAIL RUN presented by SALOMON announced today that there will be another R 100 000 INCENTIVE for a SUB 4 hours RETTO! Riaan van Niekerk from Conveyor Technologies has come on board as a partner of this year’s event and will secure the prize purse of […]

The Tsitsikamma Section of the Garden Route National Park will once again become South Africa’s Trail Running Capital on Saturday October 15 when some of the world’s best trail runners set foot onto the OTTER trail to see records fall. We urge anybody – either for the excitement at the finish line or to set […]

On the 17th of October one of the most remarkable feats in South African sporting history took place in the Tsitsikamma Section of the Garden Route National Park. Swiss runner Marc Lauenstein challenged the Otter African Trail Run’s unthinkable four hour barrier. To put this in perspective there are not more than a handful of […]

written by Bruce Clark – RUN WRITE In the long jump event at the 1968 Summer Olympics, Bob Beamon jumped so far he created a new word. “Beamonesque” entered sporting lexicon and is now used as an adjective to describe spectacular athletic feats. Out of nowhere Beamon produced the jump of the century. In an […]

Biggest Trail Running Pay-out in SA The Garden Route National Park was the arena of possibly one of the most extraordinary athletic achievements in South African sporting history when Swiss Trail Runner Marc Lauenstein became the first person to run the Otter African Trail Run presented by Salomon and GU in under four hours. It […]